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Article: Penny Black revived for Stamp Show 2000
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2000
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THE WORLD'S first postage stamp is to be recreated using the
original printing press to coincide with a major international
exhibition.
The Royal Mail will print reproduction Penny Blacks 160 years
after the stamp was first issued on 6 May 1840. The printing will
take place during The Stamp Show 2000 in London next month and will
make use of the Perkins- Bacon printing press loaned by the British
Library philatelic collections.
The Royal Mail said the printing process would use the original
Victorian printing method and would be "extremely slow", with only 10
sheets printed a day - and a maximum of 70 sheets produced during the
show.
David Beech, curator and head of the British ...